St. Paul daily globe., 1887-11-06
COUNTERFEIT COINS.
The Country About Duluth Flooded With
Bogus Money.
CONFIDING INDIANS VICTIMS
The Washburn Elevator Trouble---The
Linseed Oil Trust---General
Duluth News.
Special to theGIobe.


the city to-day upon a rather diff
ferent errand than usual. The pine
men, iron men and blind pig men can
rest easy. These are not wanted this
trip. The fact is that for some time past
a gang of cOunterfeiters have been oper
ating in the northern of the state, and by
the time the readers of the GLOBE read
Sundays edition for breakfast some of
the offenders will be Gagged. The gang
which have been operating here are
Shrewd and are not cOunterfeiters them
selves, but set of dangerous villains,
who put money into circulation. The
base coins are so well made that bank
officials have been deceived, and they
have been received as legal tender by
bankers and gamblers, churches and
saloons. The only pronounced differ
ence between the counterfeit and genu-
inc dollar is difference in weight, the
spurious being somewhat the
lighter of the two. The milling
time that cOunterfeiterS have selected
st. Louis county as the scene of opera
tiOnS. One gang operated successfully
some time ago, and escaped immediate
detection and arrest. Their scheme was
well worked, but was a cruelty mean
One The facts are as follows: When
the Vermillion country first Sprang into
prominence in the spring of 1855, just
before the ice broke up, a gang of these
villains went up to Tower. There they
pretended that they were land hunters,
and they were very guarded in their
actions while in the village, but during
the summer the secret of their visit be-
came known to nearly every settler
from Tower to Lake of the Woods.
These men travelled among the Indians
by way of Fort Francis to Rat Portage,
and bought up all the fur that they
could find, paying the highest prices for
it, and always in silver money. The
money was nearly all spurious, and the
scheme was well conceived and boldly
carried out. The Indians in many cases
were not losers, as they passed the
money to other traders, but to-day many
a lead dollar can be seen hung around
an Indians neck by string, and worn
simply as an ornament.
THE ELEVATOR ROW.
The principal subject of conversation
upon the board of trade to-day was the
recent action of the warehouse commits
SiOnerS in extending the Minnesota Sys-
EN- of inspection to the elevators at
Washburn, Wis. 1.-The next thing that
these autocrats will be doing" said
director, Twill be to go to Chicago and
pardon the condemned anarchists"
Early in the session the following dis
patch was sent the commission:
The board Of trade is anxiously waiting an
answer to its yesterdays telegram. Please
comply Immediately.
GEORGE E. WELLEs, Secretary.
To which the following reply was re-
ceived:
Commission is not in session and will not
be until next Tuesday.
F. S. WARNER. Secretary.
Upon receipt of this exceedingly curt
response the executive officers of the
board summoned their legal advisers
and set about to devise some means to
compel the commission to refrain from
infiicting such blow to Duluth'S grain
trade, and also to prevent them from
using the word Duluth to further any
more Minneapolis schemes. An infiu-
entail committee of the board of trade
men will appear before the commission
OH Tuesday. John Mcleod, of the firm
of A. j. Sawyer, positively denied that
his firm has or ever had any grain in
the Washburn elevators. and said that
Secretary Warner must have been mis-
taken when he said so. Expressions of
feeling this morning upon the board
were by no means violent or intemper-
ate, but there is a dogged resolution
throughout the trade to follow this mat
t.. to the end, but the mention of the
name "Washburn" was to the members
of the board like a red flag to bull.
THE LINSEED OIL TRUST.
Yesterday G. G. Hartley sold to r. ID.
Hubbard, of Sioux City, To-. 800 feet
front on Sixth avenue west for $50 a
front foot. or $4,000, which is about
One-half the market value. Mr.. Hub
bard is the representative of the i'm
menSe linSeed oil trust which has been
operating so extensively throughout the
West, and has works located at Sioux
City, MankatO and other points. The
trust has, after long and careful conSid-
Grafton, decided to locate the headquar-
tiers of its business at the head OF Lake
Superior, and has selected and pur-
chased site on which a plant will be
built. The buildings will consist of eX-
tensive linseed oil works. an eight
hundred-barrel -four mill and store
houses. Among the store houses which
will be erected is four-StOry brick
building with frontage of 800 feet.
Mr.. Hubbard guarantees that this
building will be a model one and that it
will be a credit TO the city. NegOtia-
tions are about closed for another and
larger tract of land in the vicinity of
Slip No. 3, which will be purchased at a
cost of $4,000, making an outlay of
S95, 900 for land on which buildings are
to be located, and it will all be utilized.
The Trust syndicate will hold meeting
in Sioux City on the 9th. when it will
be decided whether foundations for the
plant will be constructed at once or
early in the spring; also, upon which
of the two tracts of land purchased the
manufacturing plant will be located,
the intention being to place storage
buildings upon the other. Three-fOurths
of the entire crop of f1aXSeed of the
states is raised in Southern Dakota.
Southeastern Minnesota, SOuthwe estern
Iowa and Northeastern Nebraska.
NOTES.
Chief of Police Doran has been notified by
the Minneapolis authorities to keep look
out for two dime novel youths who ran away
from Minneapolis to become Buffalo Bills
broken, and it is believed the young raseals
are somewhere in this neighborhood.
Ore shipments from Two Harbors have
reached total this season of $40, 1916 tons,
Is, ,325 having been shipped last week.
There are over l5 600 tons on the dock
dhd oHlpAlSllt; aliu II fOSSS4o Soh OC SC
cured 10000 tons can be forwarded next
week. Wilson'S line of boats have been
carrying ore, but they are demanding too
much, and the Iron company will stop ship
ments until next year.
Abel Rey, of London and Paris, A. Chan
volt and A. Maurel, of Bordeaux, France.
were in the city to-day. Mr.. Rey is well
known member of the Mark Lane Corn ex-
change and heavy wheat importer. Aessrs.
| ChauvOit and Maurel are two wealthy young
Frenchmen travelling for information and
pleasure. Mr. Rey said business was dull
upon the other side. He was making a tour
of the principal primary wheat points with a
view of arranging for direct purchases, and
| to avoid the necessity of dealing with New